One of the highlights to be found in this month’s Colorado sky is the golden-hued planet Saturn which can be seen forming an ...

Why does the Earth spin? Sara H., age 5, New Paltz, New York A globe was the first thing I ever bought with my own money.

Shaped by gravitational forces over millions of years, Saturn's rings are incredibly complex. A tiny moon named Pan, just 17 miles wide, has notably influenced their structure by creating the ...

What an autumn it’s been for stargazing all around the world. Between the frequent Aurora and Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas and all ...

The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.

In the evening, a gigantic bowl with thousands of pinprick holes is inverted over the Earth—or so the thinking ... the phases of Venus, the rings of Saturn (which had not yet been confirmed ...

To get a sense of what a biomolecular condensate looks like, imagine a lava lamp as the blobs of wax inside fuse together ... about the origins of life on Earth. There is ample evidence that ...

Buried Alive: Carbon Dioxide Release from Magma Deep Beneath Ancient Volcanoes Was a Hidden Driver of Earth's Past Climate Oct. 30, 2024 — A team discovered that, contrary to present scientific ...

Earth's heat was captured billions of years ago, locked inside the planet at the time ... lies the next planet. Saturn's rings loop for hundreds of thousands of miles. And just beyond them ...

The new moon of November 2024 occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass to Venus in the evening ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...